Foxcroft, ME original painting. Oil, spray, and pastel on vintage cabinet card. 9.25” x 11.25” framed. 2022.

Professionally framed by Wade Maxx Art, Design, and Gallery

About the Cabinet Card Series:
The cabinet card paintings began as a pandemic-induced experiment in 2020, when my connection to the work I was making was severed and I was toying with ideas that were small enough to work on in quarantine. Flipping through hundreds of these faces, I realized their connection to the current events: mass numbers of people with no names, recalling a time period where a global pandemic was something that might be expected in one’s lifetime. The feelings and conversations happening at the beginning of the pandemic were reminiscent of this era: food and essential supplies were scarce, an economic depression loomed, and our fast-paced modern lifestyles came to a halt, renewing modes of the past. Now recycled into contemporary paintings, these cards maintain their antique charm and are presented as artifacts straddling a balance between old and new.